The results were released in January, and they showed the study didn't prove an expected benefit on artery plaque.
Dr Baker is convinced all the expertise - in composite structures, guidance and avionics, propulsion, etc - exists in the UK to make it happen, but a study would have to prove the technical case and a viable business model.
He hopes that Inamed's clinical study will prove that its silicone implants are safe and will eventually result in FDA approval for the implants.
Yesterday, Orexigen, which seemed to have abandoned its obesity drug Contrave after the Food and Drug Administration asked for a giant study to prove the medicine is safe, jumped back in the weight-loss game .
Sargent and his colleagues can't prove from this study alone that movies incite kids to smoke.
The study, called ENHANCE and started in June 2002, intended to prove that adding Zetia to Zocor caused less heart-attack-causing plaque to build up in patients' arteries than Zocor alone.
The study cannot definitively prove this harm, but it is well done and the findings are very suggestive.
The study failed to prove that Vytorin, a combo pill of Zocor and the drug Zetia, did any better at preventing heart-attack-causing atherosclerosis than older medicines.
But the results were not good enough for Dendreon to file with the Food and Drug Administration, and they could stoke investor fears that the study might not be big enough to prove Provenge is effective--even if the drug really does save lives.
The Rand study suggested, though, that government might intervene and mandate self-driving cars if they prove to be half as safe as Google claims.
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It took years before a big study was launched to prove Zetia adds heart-attack-preventing effectiveness to Zocor--and it won't be done until 2012.
He still wants to see clear data on how Zetia affects heart attacks, strokes and deaths, and doesn't understand why it took so long to embark on a big study to prove it.
Simdax, a heart failure drug from Abbott Laboratories and Orion Pharmaceutical, failed to prove it extended survival compared to an older treatment in a study of 1, 327 patients.
Here's the catch: That preliminary study, in which 58 patients already taking Enbrel also took Kineret, didn't prove that using Enbrel and Kineret together is safe.
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